Silent Night (German: Stille Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber
to lyrics by Joseph Mohr. This is a reharmonized a cappella version for five voices (SABBB) composed by
Kostika Çollaku in 2013.

Every time the wind blowsΤhe wheat ears are dancingΤo the rhythm of the windEvery time I watched you dreamAs you were looking at the wheatBut where you are now there is no wheat,Only rotting ground and silence.

III. AUTUMN (through the eyes of a blind man)

The golden leavesAre scattered on the wet groundI hear them every time they crumble under my feet.I smell the rain that has wet the groundAnd feel some raindrops on my faceSoon it will be raining harderI feel a cloud approaching.

''Dandelion'' is a concertante work that is still being composed (2014). It's for solo voices, mixed choir and string orchestra in German text.

The main subject of the work is the searching for the dividing line which can transform any man into “hero” or “monster”. The only character of the work is a former German soldier that during the WWII his task was to throw the gas into the gas-chambers. The same person, in the morning was completing his cruel tasks and later the night he was spending his time with his wife and his two young children who loved them so much. Now at the age of 84 his past hunts him and he is trying to answer the questions. The work is an inner pursuit of man with nature, God and his fellow mans. A work about the memory of humanity and its insecure future.

The interviews in the trailer are from the documentary: Auschwitz - Inside the Nazi StateThe english translation of the final quote of the trailer is:

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

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A piece for tenor saxophone with guitar accompaniment.

Was composed on 2010 for a short film called ''How will she stay?'' by filmmaker Marcel Michalaris.

From January until June of 2009 Kostika Çollaku
completed his thesis composition for his school composing the soundtrack for
classic movie Dracula – 1931 by Tod Browning. The movie haven’t original score,
except the beginning titles were it was the Swan Lake by P.I. Tchaikovsky.

Kostika Çollaku said about his composition:

“My goal was to update the movie through the music. I didn’t want to
compose a classic background horror music. Throughout the procedure of
composition I had in mind of how a contemporary man living in 2009 sees the
film which is already 80 years old. I used a technique in my composition
inspired by a well-known cinema technique. In cinema we have various camera
shots like the Mid-Shot, the Wide-Shot the Close-Up, the Extreme Close-Up
and more which shows the main character or the actors involving in the movie
from a specific angle, there is one more well-known shot angle thought which is
called the Bird Eye View and the purpose is for the viewer to see from the eyes
of a bird or an unknown observer that is not involving in the movie at all,
like a third eye. So I decided to fit this idea in my composition, getting away
from the two basic techniques in composing for movies.”

About Me

Kostika Çollaku (Korçë, July 4th 1989) is a composer of contemporary classical music based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Among his compositions he has composed also music for movies, animations and theatrical plays. In 2013 his composition Vocalise for Nine Voices (a cappella) was performed at Thessaloniki’s Concert Hall. He has graduated from IIEK (Private Institute of Vocational Training) PASTER, specializing in Music with Technology with a diplomatic thesis on 'Music and Image'. He has taken piano lessons and has the degree of Expert in Harmony by the Conservatoire of Northern Greece. In 2009, he won two awards and a distinction in the 7th International Composition Competition held by the Foudoulis Conservatory in collaboration with the International Art Society and Academy. Also he acquired a composition award at the InterArtia Festival in 2009, in the category 'Music for Animated Video'. He is a member of the Mixed Choir of Thessaloniki since 2011.